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  Re: 6 volumes  
From: Trevor G Quayle
Date: 15 Jan 2009 17:00:00
Message: <web.496fb1a31026618d81c811d20@news.povray.org>
Le_Forgeron <jgr### [at] freefr> wrote:
> More than the classical cone/sphere/cylinder used to count 1,2,3.
>
> Counting from 1 to 6, here a set of increasing volumes.
> Constraint are:
>  * Volume must be inside a box of size 2R
>  * Each side of the box must be touched, at least by a point, even on border

>

> there such simple solid ? And what does it looks like ?
>
> Solids are:
>  1. Milk carton (berlingot) quartic
>  2. Cone
>  3. conocuneus (coin conique) quartic
>  4. Sphere
>  5. spherical top on cylinder
>  6. Cylinder

Would a shape with a square top and circular bottom work (similar to 3 which is
a line top and round bottom).

I don't know what the exact volume is but it would seem that it would be the
average of a cylinder and a cube: (6+8)/2=7

-tgq


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